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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 21, 2002Columbia County, Dodge County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 21, 2002, 5:52 PM CDT for Columbia County, Dodge County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 38 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 2002, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Columbia County, WI, Dodge County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jun 21, 6:05 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Friesland, WI
Jun 21, 6:19 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Fox Lake, WI
Jun 21, 6:25 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 65 E	Fox Lake, WI

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1427 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KMKX 212252
TORMKE
WIC021-027-212330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
551 PM CDT FRI JUN 21 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEAST COLUMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
  NORTHWEST DODGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 551 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST
  DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  CAMBRIA...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF PORTAGE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  CAMBRIA AT 555 PM CDT.
  FRIESLAND AT 600 PM CDT.
  RANDOLPH AT 605 PM CDT.
  FOX LAKE AT 610 PM CDT.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS

COLLAR

The office that day

Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Green Lake, Marquette	52 min
Jun 21, 5:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia	27 min
Jun 21, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Sauk	53 min
Jun 21, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Sauk	49 min
Jun 21, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dodge	58 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.